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Defending The Little Desert - The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia (Paperback)
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Defending The Little Desert - The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia (Paperback)
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Loot Price R535
Discovery Miles 5 350
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In 1968 Sir William McDonald, Victoria's Minister of Lands,
announced a rural settlement scheme for the Little Desert in
Victoria's far north-west. The conservation campaign that ensued
was one of unprecedented vehemence and sophistication. It cost
McDonald his parliamentary seat and consigned the Little Desert
Settlement Scheme to oblivion. The Little Desert dispute was a
watershed in Australian environmental politics. Suburban activists,
scientists, amateur naturalists, economists and bureaucrats banded
together to oppose McDonald's ill-conceived scheme. It marked the
beginning of a new consciousness of nature and the concept of
`biological diversity' was voiced in the halls of parliament for
the first time. In Defending the Little Desert, Libby Robin offers
a sensitive account of the unlikely coalition of forces that
assembled to save the Little Desert. This beautifully written
account of the campaign, perhaps the earliest expression of
ecological consciousness in Australia, will be read by all
Australians interested in conservation and the environment, in
participatory political processes and in 'public science'.
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